Conditionals in use. Use of first and second conditionals with practice

First Type: Possible & Probable conditions
Second Type: Possible & Improbable conditions
Third Type: Impossible conditions
Conditional Types
Other Conditional sentences
Wish / If only

IF CLAUSE MAIN CLAUSE
Simple Present
Simple Future
Imperative
Can
If you come I will be happy
If you want to pass Study!
If we buy a ticket We ................ (go) to the
concert
If she .....................
(arrive) soon
she will come with us
If they dance too much They .............................
(get) tired
If you need my car .............................. (take)
it

If you ........ (drink) a lot I .......... (leave) you
If the road ............ (be) wet ............(watch out) !
If he .......... (lose) his key You ................ (lend) him
yours
If she .............. (not buy) any
food
We ................(have dinner)
If they ......... (not stop)
talking
We .......... (not finish) our
lesson
If you ....... (take) the dog for
a walk
I ................ (give) you some
money

Simple Past Would + root verb
Could + root verb
If she studied she would pass her controls
If he ran he would catch the bus
If I went to China I could be with him
If I were ..................... ....................................
To express an imaginary present or improbable future
situations

If the road ............ (be) wet You ............(have) an accident
yours
food
We ................(have dinner)
talking
lesson
a walk
I ................ (give) you some
money

To express a regret for an impossible situation happened
in the Past with NO solution
IF CLAUSE
Past Perfect
Past Perfect Present Perfect Conditional
(Would have + past participle)
If it hadn't rained We would have gone to the
country
If she had studied She ............ (pass) her
controls
If you ................... (invite)
them
They 'd have come to the party
If I had known it I .......................(arrive)
earlier
If he.............................
(phone)
I 'd have seen him

If the road ............ (be) wet You ............(have) an accident
yours
food
We ................(have dinner)
talking
lesson
a walk
I ................ (give) you some
money

UNLESS
" Si no…"
"A menos que..."
You won't finish the race unless you control your
effort.
"WHETHER…OR NOT"
"Tanto….como si no "
Whether you pay or not, you won't get in without an
invitation.
"ON CONDITION THAT"
"PROVIDED THAT"
"PROVIDING THAT"
"SO LONG AS"
"AS LONG AS
"Siempre que, en tanto
que, con la condición de
que,...etc
"ASSUMING THAT"
"SUPPOSING THAT"
"SUPPOSE THAT"
"Suponiendo que.."
"I will only tell my age on condition that you tell
yours."
“I will only tell my age provided that you tell yours”
“I will only tell my age providing that you tell yours”
“I will only tell my age so long as you tell yours”
“I will only tell my age as long as you tell yours”
"Assuming that it's fine tomorrow, we'll go for a
swim"
"What would you do supposing that you were given
the chance to see the future ?"
Other expressions used in conditional
clauses:

Other time clauses
Time clauses with before, unless, when, while, as soon as, as long as,
provided that
After when, as soon as, before, while, unless, as long as and provided that we
use the present tense (not will).
• I’ll stay with Jake when I go to London next week.
• As soon as I get my exam results, I’m going on holiday.
• Before I go out tonight, I have to finish this essay.
• While I’m away, Penny’s going to look after my dog.
• I won’t be able to buy a car unless I find a job soon.
• I’ll come with you as long as I don't have to drive.
• You’ll pass your exam provided that you doenough revision.

WISH / IF ONLY CLAUSES
Wish and if only can be used with would and past tenses. These structures express
regrets, and wishes for unlikely or impossible things.
If only is more emphatic. (Traducción: Ójala, Desearía)
1. Past tenses are used to talk about the present.
I wish I was better looking I wish I spoke French
Don’t you wish you could fly? If only I knew more people!
Were can be used instead of was, especially in a formal style.
He wishes he were better looking.
2. We use a past perfect tense to express regrets about the past
I wish you hadn’t said that.
Now she wishes she had gone to university.
If only she hadn’t told the police, everything would be all right.
3. We use would... to talk about things that we would like people (not) to do.
This often expresses dissatisfaction or annoyance: it can sound critical.
I wish you would go home. If only the postman would come!
We can use this structure to talk about things as well as people.
I wish this damned car would start. If only it would stop raining!

Sample rephrasing
First Conditional:
- Be careful – someone’s going to see you!
- If you are careful, nobody will see you!
- If + Subject + present simple, subject + future will (aff or neg)
Second Conditional:
-Kathy wants to go to the movies but doesn't have any money
-If Kathy had some money, she would go to the movies.
-If + Subject + past simple (neg or aff), subject + would /could/might + infinitive + complements
Third Conditional:
-Tom was not going to come to dinner the next day because you insulted him.
-If Tom hadn’t insulted him, he would have come to dinner.
- If + Subject + past perfect (neg or aff), subject + would/ could/might + have + pp + C
Wish / If only
I’m sorry, but I can’t help you now.
I wish I could help you.
I would have gone to the concert, but I didn’t have a ticket.
I wish I had had a ticket. / I had bought a ticket

- His book will be published provided he takes his manuscript to the editor.
Unless he takes his manuscript to the editor, his book won’t be published.
Unles + present simple, future simple (aff or neg)
-I didn't have an umbrella with me and so I got wet.
I wouldn't have got wet, if I had had an umbrella with me.
-We don't go to school when it rains
If it rains, we don’t go to school.
-I didn't move the table because Jack didn't help me.
If Jack had helped me, I would have moved the table.
- You drink too much coffee, that's why you don't sleep.
If you didn’t drank too much coffee, you would sleep.
-You never talk to me, so you don't know anything about me.
If you talked to me, you would know something about me.
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